Koss

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley R. Koss, Winter Park, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with their family on Nov. 16. They were married Nov. 16, 1940, in Englewood, N.J. Their daughter is Carolyn Koss Peterson, Winter Park. They have three grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

Susan Koss and Caroline Orner are on a gastronomic odyssey, eating their way through Vietnam as the cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas sails down the country's coastline. But Ho Chi Minh City is what the friends have their hearts and palates set on. Orner lives in Hagerstown, Md., which has no Vietnamese restaurants, so to satisfy her craving for those sweet, salty and sour flavors unique to Vietnamese food, she wants to learn to cook it herself. That's why she's at the Vietnam Cookery Center.

MRS. KOSS, 2710 Washington Ave., Eustis, died Thursday, June 16. She was a homemaker. Born in Simpson, Pa., she moved to Central Florida in 1944. She was a member of St. Mary of the Lakes Catholic Church, Eustis. She was a former owner of the Hubba Hubba Restaurant, Eustis. She was a member of the Eustis Women's Club and Anna Miller Circle 1578, Eustis. Survivors: sons, John Jr., Eustis, Robert J., Leesburg; sister, Helen Hall, Port Richey; four grandchildren; five great-grandchildren. Hamlin and Hilbish Funeral Directors, Eustis.

Most MP3 players have left the heavy lifting of actually producing sound to speakers or headphones. Koss decided to mash the two with its MP3 Tugo (as in "to go"), a pair of audiophile-style headphones with a built-in player. The headphones, available at koss.com for $299, look like a traditional hi-fi headset with soft ear cups and a thick padded headband. Inside, along with Koss speakers, are 512 MB of storage -- enough for about 128 songs -- and MP3-playback circuitry, allowing unobtrusive listening to music without connecting an external player.

Speedskating's interminable 10,000-meter race normally is about as vibrant as a wake.But Norwegian Olympic hero Johann Olav Koss, abetted by an arena full of worshipers who greet even his warmups with standing ovations, turned it Sunday into one of the most riveting events of these Winter Games.Koss won his third gold medal with a race for the ages, setting a world record of such incredible dimension that his rivals literally gave up before they started.''You have to be realistic,'' said Holland's Bart Veldkamp, the defending Olympic champion.

Catherine Koss likes to play the lottery.For an avid player, though, the lottery games present problems. How does a player keep her tickets straight? How does she easily keep lists of numbers that have won, or numbers she would like to play again?For Koss, it was a problem. ''I kept them in an envelope. But one day the envelope spilled and all the tickets fell on the floor.''In frustration, Koss said she wondered aloud why something couldn't be done to help her organize her lottery information.

SUMMER CAMP SCHOLARSHIPS. The parks and recreation department is organizing a summer day camp program that will begin in June. Children whose families cannot afford the weekly fee may be aided by a scholarship fund arranged by Linda Koss of the parks and recreation department. Donations may be sent to the department at P.O. Box 159, Oviedo 32765. For more details, call Koss at 366-1507.

Most MP3 players have left the heavy lifting of actually producing sound to speakers or headphones. Koss decided to mash the two with its MP3 Tugo (as in "to go"), a pair of audiophile-style headphones with a built-in player. The headphones, available at koss.com for $299, look like a traditional hi-fi headset with soft ear cups and a thick padded headband. Inside, along with Koss speakers, are 512 MB of storage -- enough for about 128 songs -- and MP3-playback circuitry, allowing unobtrusive listening to music without connecting an external player.

STANLEY R. KOSS, 77, 1600 Alabama Drive, Winter Park, died Wednesday, May 13. Mr. Koss was retired vice president of Houbigant in New York and Paris. Born in Carson City, Nev., he moved to Central Florida in 1971. A Protestant, he also was a member of the Winter Park Racquet Club and Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He was a past member of the Board of Governors of the Englewood Field Club, Englewood, N.J., and a former member of the Lions Club of Petersburg, Va. Survivors: wife, Carolyn; daughter, Carolyn K. Peterson, Winter Park; three grandchildren; two great-grandchildren.

What has happened to Congress' priorities? I feel sure that all our citizens would much prefer continuing to use the same old coins rather than further increasing the deficit to issue new ''designer coins.''I would much rather our congressmen cure their boredom by concentrating upon reducing the deficit.Joanne W. Koss EUSTIS

KISSIMMEE -- Osceola High School's girls, a dozen strong, but most in their first year of competition, have won Florida's unofficial wrestling championship, slipping past Okeechobee 68-55 in Saturday's 41-school event at Gateway High. Although around since 1977, the Florida High School Athletic Association does not sanction girls wrestling as a state championship series, therefore its "unofficial" status. "We've got a good bunch of girls, hard workers," said Osceola Coach Jim Bird, whose program debuted a year ago with three girls.

Rookie author Bill Koss, who has certainly been on the inside of the subject, has a lively new book out next week, ''Pond Birds'' (Fast Break Press, $24.95), containing his backstage perspective on the past several decades of Florida Gators basketball. Koss, whoplayed for the Gators in the '60s and has served as an analyst on UF's radio and TV hoops broadcasts for 25 years, gives Norm Sloan full credit in the book for lifting Gators basketball from the dead to national prominence during both of Sloan's stints at UF. But Koss also roughs up his old coach, painting Sloan as a demeaning and foul-mouthed tyrant that he and many of his teammates hated.

Florida senior guard Dan Cross was named the Gators' 1994-95 Most Valuable Player during the annual team basketball banquet Sunday.Cross, who earned first-team All-Southeastern Conference honors for the second year in a row, averaged 18 points.Senior forward Andrew DeClercq, who started a UF-record 128 consecutive games, was named the Most Inspirational Player.Sunday's other award winner was senior forward Svein Dyrkolbotn, who took home two honors: the Overall Academic Excellence Award and the Fred Koss Memorial Award, which is annually given to the senior who displayed the most leadership, sacrifice, integrity and sportsmanship during his career.

One in four college-age women has been the victim of rape or attempted rape . . . Left-handed people die an average of nine years earlier than right-handed people . . . Milk may cause diabetes . . . People are more likely to suffer a heart attack on their birthday.These are just a few of the many alarming statistics from studies and surveys that bombard us every day.But the truth is, many well-known statistics and studies are distorted, misleading or just plain false, experts say.Why do we give them credence?

MRS. KOSS, 2710 Washington Ave., Eustis, died Thursday, June 16. She was a homemaker. Born in Simpson, Pa., she moved to Central Florida in 1944. She was a member of St. Mary of the Lakes Catholic Church, Eustis. She was a former owner of the Hubba Hubba Restaurant, Eustis. She was a member of the Eustis Women's Club and Anna Miller Circle 1578, Eustis. Survivors: sons, John Jr., Eustis, Robert J., Leesburg; sister, Helen Hall, Port Richey; four grandchildren; five great-grandchildren. Hamlin and Hilbish Funeral Directors, Eustis.

Speedskating's interminable 10,000-meter race normally is about as vibrant as a wake.But Norwegian Olympic hero Johann Olav Koss, abetted by an arena full of worshipers who greet even his warmups with standing ovations, turned it Sunday into one of the most riveting events of these Winter Games.Koss won his third gold medal with a race for the ages, setting a world record of such incredible dimension that his rivals literally gave up before they started.''You have to be realistic,'' said Holland's Bart Veldkamp, the defending Olympic champion.

Zdenek Macal has recorded Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in a fine performance with his orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony, on the Koss Classics label (KC-1003). A few years ago, this would have been unthinkable; Beethoven recordings were made only by a handful of American orchestras - mostly the ''Big Five'' (Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia and New York), occasionally a few others such as Los Angeles and Pittsburgh if they snagged celebrity conductors.But Milwaukee is a beneficiary of a new trend: Small American recording companies such as Koss, Koch, Delos and Telarc are working with American regional orchestras, and the quality of the resulting CDs is a revelation - there are good orchestras in unexpected places.

Say SST and most people think of the Concorde, the supersonic transport. Koss gives new meaning to these initials with its SST line of stereophones, specifically the SST-6.Maybe it means supersonic transducer, because head- phones, like loudspeakers, are transducers. Whatever it means, these new Koss phones are a breath of fresh ear.Koss and bass go together like Milwaukee and beer. Koss not only ''invented'' the stereo headphone but was one of the first companies to deliver low frequencies from a stereophone.

Zdenek Macal has recorded Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in a fine performance with his orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony, on the Koss Classics label (KC-1003). A few years ago, this would have been unthinkable; Beethoven recordings were made only by a handful of American orchestras - mostly the ''Big Five'' (Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia and New York), occasionally a few others such as Los Angeles and Pittsburgh if they snagged celebrity conductors.But Milwaukee is a beneficiary of a new trend: Small American recording companies such as Koss, Koch, Delos and Telarc are working with American regional orchestras, and the quality of the resulting CDs is a revelation - there are good orchestras in unexpected places.

STANLEY R. KOSS, 77, 1600 Alabama Drive, Winter Park, died Wednesday, May 13. Mr. Koss was retired vice president of Houbigant in New York and Paris. Born in Carson City, Nev., he moved to Central Florida in 1971. A Protestant, he also was a member of the Winter Park Racquet Club and Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He was a past member of the Board of Governors of the Englewood Field Club, Englewood, N.J., and a former member of the Lions Club of Petersburg, Va. Survivors: wife, Carolyn; daughter, Carolyn K. Peterson, Winter Park; three grandchildren; two great-grandchildren.